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> I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of Windows 10 workstations that cannot be upgraded. It's the same situation as last time with Win
by Hilift 1y ago
> I work in a research lab with 10s of 1000s of dollars worth of Windows 10 workstations that cannot be upgraded.
It's the same situation as last time with Windows 7. You can get three years of extended support for the monthly cumulative update, which I assume is being done given it is fairly inexpensive. The US government gets favorable pricing from Microsoft.
The consumer price for Windows 10 ESU is $30/$60/$90 for the first/second/third year.
- em-bee 1y agocompared to buying a new machine that's actually not that bad. i am not a windows user but spending $180 to extend the life of a fairly new machine by another three years may just be worth it.
- ponector 1y agoIf person cannot buy a new machine I bet they will continue use old one without bothering of getting paid updates. Some companies may be buying prolongation for specific equipment which run win10. Computers are cheap!
- cosmicgadget 1y agoHopefully this will be popular enough that Steam and Mozilla and others won't drop Win10 support for several more years.
- bitbiter 1y agoSteam dropped support for Windows XP and Windows Vista at the same time, about 5 years after Microsoft ended support for Windows XP and 2 years after support ended for Windows Vista